The head seemed to notice Bai Liu and the others' gazes, and turned around stutteringly, coming face to face with Mu Sicheng who was standing right next to it.

Mu Sicheng covered his mouth tightly to prevent himself from screaming.

The head was snow-white, and the face was strangely connected as one piece, like the prototype of a plaster statue. Only some rough depressions and undulations could be seen on the face, but no specific facial features.

Just when Mu Sicheng thought that this thing had no eyes, nose or mouth, a bloody cut appeared at the mouth of the head, as if someone had cut it with a knife. The cut went all the way to behind the ear, and there were sharp fangs inside. A strong bloody and foul smell hit his face.

It stretched out its barbed tongue, as if preparing to lick Mu Sicheng.

Bai Liu quickly pulled Mu Sicheng back and hid under the bed, avoiding being licked by the man's head.

The man tilted his head and slowly crawled down from under the bed, revealing his body with four limbs growing on a very twisted, wavy spine. He crawled outside the bed, and with his face, which had no facial features but only a mouth, he tilted his head and quietly looked at the two people huddled in the corner under the bed.

Mu Sicheng tightly grasped Bai Liu's hand; he was already sweating coldly from fear.

"This thing has no eyes, nose, or ears." Mu Sicheng whispered to Bai Liu in a very low voice, almost in an undertone, "Can't it find us? We can quietly..."

Bai Liu did not answer Mu Sicheng's words, but stared at the head without facial features. He slowly reached out and picked up a small stone from under the bed, raised his hand and threw it out, hitting the thing in the face.

The thing outside the bed suddenly opened its eyes and opened its mouth, leaving two blood-red cuts at its eyes. Its eyeballs rolled around inside and finally stared straight at Bai Liu under the bed.

Mu Sicheng was almost scared to death: "What are you doing!"

Bai Liu said calmly, "I'll prove to you that it has eyes. It's impossible for you to escape quietly in front of it."

"This thing is a kind of accomplice."

Mu Sicheng looked at the thing outside in horror: "A ghost, a ghost?"

Bai Liu explained calmly, "Have you heard the story of a tiger's accomplice? Simply put, a person who is killed by a certain creature becomes a ghost and helps the creature find prey."

"There are so many people who have drowned in Yinshan Village. These drowned people will turn into water ghosts, and the water ghosts will look for substitutes."

"Normally, water ghosts will be reincarnated after finding a substitute, but the water ghosts in Yinshan Village cannot be reincarnated even if they find a substitute. They are still trapped here. In this way, no matter how many people these water ghosts kill and eat, they cannot become human. Those whose substitutes are eaten by water ghosts will also become ghosts. When people are alive, they will be afraid of the people who killed them. When ghosts die, they will be afraid of the ghosts that killed them when they were alive. Therefore, these ghosts will provide water ghosts with control."

"Those who eat people but are not human are called tigers, and those who are tigers and serve as accomplices are called accomplices."

"I suspect this thing was an innocent passerby who was captured by a water ghost who was transformed from a dead person in Yinshan Village and used as a substitute. It turned into a ghost."

Bai Liu looked at the thing outside the bed: "When the accomplices die and forget their human form, they will become neither human nor ghost. But when they are accomplices to the tiger, these accomplices need to pretend to be human to lure passers-by into the mountains, so these accomplices will become like humans, like now."

The twisted humanoid monster outside the bed opened its eyes and saw the two people under the bed. It suddenly twisted its neck and moved. Its twisted spine made a creaking sound as its joints intertwined, and its twisted limbs straightened out. It slowly stood up while deforming itself.

Mu Sicheng could only see a pair of bent calves slowly changing from being turned outside to being turned inside out, turning into a pair of normal calves, and then the toes turned from facing away from the bed to facing the bed, and then gently stood up, leaving behind the triangular footprints with only the front soles of the feet that Mu Sicheng and the others had seen outside the house.

A pair of pale hands gently grasped the edge of the bed, and a smiling woman's face bent over and appeared from under the bed. She waved to Mu Sicheng under the bed tenderly and kindly, with a sinister smile on her face: "Come out."

"Why are you hiding under the bed when you come to my house? Come out."

The woman had a normal face and all the facial features. Her voice was very friendly, as if she was an ordinary woman who was genuinely welcoming her neighbors to visit. The only strange thing was that her eyes had only whites.

Mu Sicheng got goosebumps when he saw it: "It transformed from a ghost into a human right in front of me to deceive me! Why did it think I would be fooled!"

"Maybe they think you're not very smart and easier to fool," Bai Liu said.

Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu speechlessly: "How do you know she is a ghost?"

Bai Liu replied: "It is recorded in the Maoshan Witchcraft Handwritten Manuscript."

Mu Sicheng was now aware of the situation. He glanced at the ghost outside the bed that had not come in yet and asked curiously, "How do you know she wouldn't go under the bed? She crawled out from under the bed."

"Because I saw this." Bai Liu moved aside to let Mu Sicheng look behind him.

There was a collapsed earth hole under the bed behind Bai Liu, which was roughly big enough for an adult to enter and exit. Next to it was a folded plastic coordinate with [7] written on top and [Left by the Archaeological Team of xxx University] written on the bottom.

Mu Sicheng looked at the hole in astonishment: "What is this?"

Bai Liu held up the coordinates and looked into the dark and gloomy pit: "This should be one of the coordinate points where the archaeological team excavated the ancient tomb. The following leads to the ancient tomb."

The woman outside the bed was still walking back and forth on tiptoe, bending down from time to time to look at them with her eyeless eyes, but she never came in.

Bai Liu looked outside the bed: "This ghost must have crawled out of this hole, which means the tiger it raised lives in this hole. Ghosts are generally afraid of tigers, so they dare not come in."

"And we are also in the tiger's mouth!" Mu Sicheng wanted to cry, "We have been sent to the tiger's mouth, there is no need for her to catch us!"

Bai Liu withdrew his gaze, lay down, and prepared to walk into the pit.

Mu Sicheng held Bai Liu's shoulders tightly. He looked at the dark pit. The stale smell coming out of it made him shiver. "...Do you really want to go down?"

Bai Liu turned around and saw Mu Sicheng curled up in fear. He patted his shoulder soothingly and said, "If you are really scared, you can go that way."

Bai Liu pointed outside the bed. The woman just happened to look down at them. She had a weird smile on her face and said in a soft voice, "Come out and visit us, little brother."

Mu Sicheng: "..."

Mu Sicheng followed Bai Liu into the pit with tears in his eyes.

The pit was very narrow. Someone like Bai Liu, who was a bit skinny, could slowly pass through it by sticking up his elbows. But someone with a bigger build like Mu Sicheng could only twist and turn and wriggle his way inside.

The more he squirmed inside, the more dead and desolate Mu Sicheng's face became.

This passage is too small. If something happens in the tomb later, he won’t be able to escape and will be stuck in this passage!

Bai Liu raised the flashlight and shone it inside. The corridor extending from the pit seemed to have no bottom. Mu Sicheng felt that they had been crawling inside for a while. Except for the fact that the surroundings became increasingly humid and a little wider, there was no obvious change.

"Mu Sicheng." Bai Liu, who was walking in front, turned around and said, "You go ahead. My phone is running low on battery and I'll need some light when we get out later. Now I'll use your camera's night mode to explore the way."

The passage was now wide enough for Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng to hand over the goods.

When Mu Sicheng turned on the night mode and aimed at the depths of the tunnel, he shuddered.

The camera's night mode was a luminescent green screen. When everything in the dark and unknown surroundings was captured in a small green screen, for some reason, Mu Sicheng felt it was even darker.

Mu Sicheng asked with a trembling voice: "Bai Liu, how long have we been climbing?"

Bai Liu glanced at his phone and said, "It's almost an hour. It's past ten now. We need to get out quickly, or it will be more dangerous when it gets dark."

Mu Sicheng was frightened. He muttered quietly, "Are normal archaeological corridors this long..."

But even though he was muttering, because he didn't want to face the evil spirit outside the bed, Mu Sicheng still ran inside with his camera in hand. He stared at the picture in the camera and suddenly paused.

"Bai Liu..." Mu Sicheng turned his head stiffly, "The passage just moved."

On the green screen of the camera, Mu Sicheng clearly saw the passage swaying from side to side, as if something was crawling on both sides.

Bai Liu was unmoved: "Yeah, I saw it before."

After Mu Sicheng realized that Bai Liu didn't take this change seriously at all, he continued to crawl inside with great sadness.

The passage in the camera was shaking more and more frequently. Mu Sicheng could feel that the things crawling around were getting closer and closer to them. He could even hear the sounds.

Boom boom boom… Boom boom boom…

Mu Sicheng was familiar with this sound. He had just heard it last night. It was the sound of someone knocking on the coffin lid from inside the coffin.

The width of the passage was now wide enough for Bai Liu and Mu Sicheng to crawl side by side. Bai Liu glanced at the camera held by Mu Sicheng, then suddenly covered Mu Sicheng's mouth and nose and turned to the side of the passage.

Bai Liu warned coldly: "Don't move, something is crawling out."

Mu Sicheng was like an ice sculpture, holding the camera motionlessly.

From afar, the sound of someone digging the soil with their hands and feet could be heard. Mu Sicheng held his breath and held up the screen. He stared at the green screen intently. Suddenly, in the darkness, an arm with the palm and back of the hand completely reversed appeared and stretched into the camera screen.

A face with unclear facial features appeared in the camera. The head was tilted at a strange angle, the spine was on the belly, and the back was soft flesh. It swayed as it crawled, with its knees completely bent inward, and it crawled past him in a posture that Mu Sicheng was completely unable to describe in words.

When the evil spirit completely passed in front of Mu Sicheng, just when Mu Sicheng was about to breathe a sigh of relief, his pupils suddenly shrank.

This evil ghost is dragging a coffin behind him!

The coffin was dragged out by the ghosts, and the sound of "dong dong dong, dong dong dong" kept coming from inside.

The moment they passed by Bai Liu and the others, the "dong dong dong" sound suddenly stopped.